Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
James Dyson
Related Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing princ... JAMES DYSON Your off-track relationship with your team and co-driver is as important as what you do at the track... GUY SMITH This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS There's just something that's greater than the sum of its parts when we play together, KEN STRINGFELLOW It came together as an awareness that as you had more and more bits, the issue was in testing all th... JOACHIM RUIZ The assembly is a great way to bring the school together. Students and teachers need a break after i... WENDY PARKHOUSE They played as well or better than they have all year. They're playing together, putting in a lot of... BOBBY STARK I'm cautiously optimistic. We have some really good sauces going up. We've been experimenting for ab... DAVID SMITH As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy. ACTION BRONSON Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into myst... ARTHUR MACHEN Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into myster... ARTHUR MACHEN Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the pass... EDMUND BURKE Putting up cameras doesn't solve the problem. It just rewards the city for poor engineering. ERIC SKRUM A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha... FREEMAN DYSON Rivera’s admiration for Stalin was equaled only by his admiration for Henry Ford. By the 1920s and... LINDA DOWNS I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what ... ERIC RIES As industrial designers, we?re often in the middle of marketing and engineering. We have to be looki... GREG SAUL I think we just got caught up in the excitement. I think we played well today. We're coming together... GEORGE FRANCK This is a big moment. We're coming together from across the spectrum to protect the principles that ... ELI PARISER It was more us putting everything together as a team. ANN BARNEY Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL We played well as a team. We executed our sacrifices, got two-out hits. That's what its all about - ... BARRY HIGHTOWER The whole is more than the sum of its parts. ARISTOTLE A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together. MARY BARRA As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom. MARK WAHLBERG He was just doing some final testing. HENRY GORDON Any proactive move to stamp out illegal use of drugs in sport is welcomed by WADA. As far as the AFL... DAVID HOWMAN You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." <... PHILIP K. DICK The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. beca... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our team is as capable of putting a run together any other team. We just need to start playing bette... BILL SAMBROOKES Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY "Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simples... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The team wrestled the most aggressive they have up until now, and I think they're really coming toge... JARED ESALA We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than p... ROBERT J. SHILLER Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned. DAVE MADDEN Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. EDSGER DIJKSTRA The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency. JAKE ARRIETA Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles. IAN FLEMING Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me... LAURA SCHLESSINGER The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for al... MARTIN FILLER Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, fa... BARBARA AMIEL 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible t... PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembl... NOAM CHOMSKY The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher... IAN HUNTER Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. DONALD TRUMP This is a mark of success for Chief Stilwell as well as for the City of Jemison for its support of t... ANN WELLS We offer business training in marketing, finance, business start-up, intellectual property, manufact... WES SAVAGE We are working more as a team. We are playing a lot more intense and playing more of a whole game ra... KRISTEN CARR It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has d... BILL BENNETT Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility. IMAM ALI (AS) Warren is always coming out with new ideas. He is always at the bakery trying out new things. He wil... ELLICE PEREZ There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final PHYLLIS BOTTOME Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l... PADRAIC PEARSE Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l... PADRAIC PEARSE Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has ... PADRAIC PEARSE Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l... GEORGE GISSING [Being a U.S. senator] is more than just casting votes on the issues you are presented with, ... It'... MATT BROWN There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools CHAMFORT Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well... JONATHAN DEMME Well, it is better than putting it in a hay field, but not as good as keeping it in the center of to... MARILYN GOODE In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a st... EDWARD ABBEY Max Crawford has been working with Dyson Racing since the early nineties. He is a valued member of t... CHRIS DYSON They always cover the floor well and they dig well. Our strength is our outside hitters and they def... ALEXIS CURRY The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in l... CAROL ANN DUFFY Brainstorming sounds like a great idea, but it doesn’t work. Dozens of studies have demonstrated t... ERIC WEINER I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they ... MIKE SIMPSON I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote s... SUSAN HILL You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up. DAVID ORTIZ Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party ... EVAN OSNOS I am no professional politician-which is perhaps why I am continually obsessed by the question as to... ANDREI SAKHAROV With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting ... JOSé SARAMAGO The PIM market is promising and growing rapidly. Distribution and manufacturing companies are faced ... JACQUES SOUMEILLAN Besides e-governance, the deployment and benefits of IT is also seen in the manufacturing, engineeri... KRISHNAN DHAWAN The VCCA has kept to its mission as well as any arts group I know. That mission is helping artists d... CRAIG PLEASANTS All the games now are important. It's us just coming together as a team, fighting a little bit harde... GLENN MURRAY A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned pe... FRANK TIPLER Our engineering and construction crew, with the cooperation of the cities of Fort Wayne and New Have... JANE HOWARD As the Craft Centre goes away, our SSR (plant) will go with it. But we have more uses for that facil... PAUL WILBUR The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you... LIVIA BLACKBURNE A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it ... JESSIQUA WITTMAN A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or off... WALTER BAGEHOT It's for the other lads as well as for James that I'll keep fighting to get my son the help he needs... MARK PIOTROWSKI There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but what... VICTOR HUGO Throughout the tournament, as well as in the final against Portugal, he showed leadership quality an... GERARD HOULLIER And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Everyone is looking at those counterparties right now as deep pockets and is putting together inform... DOUG HIRSCH A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the c... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN There's a natural interest in international affairs, perhaps even greater than other parts of the co... HOWARD BERMAN We've been a surprise this year. I think if we played Goose Creek, James Island or West Ashley in on... KIM DEESE [Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are puttin... BARRY LYNN We definitely will miss him, no question, but some things are more important than hockey. He's going... DANIEL ALFREDSSON Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturin... JAMES P. HOFFA I usually start from the most general to the more specific. I'll get an emotional overview for t... MARCO BELTRAMI We're only as good as what we are when we're playing together as five people; we just play together ... NEIL ALEXANDER This year our defense is more experienced, and they're playing really well together as a unit, JENNIFER HENDERSON In time, almost all men and women will become worthless as producers of goods, food, services, and m... KURT VONNEGUT Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned. DONALD TRUMP
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